CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.

Parentage and birth--Boyhood--Enters the King's
Regiment--Trait of determination of character--Becomes
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 49th--Campaign in Holland, in
1799--Russian troops in Guernsey--Battle of Copenhagen, in
1801--Notice of John Savery Brock, Esq.


CHAPTER II.

Proceeds to Canada with the 49th--Suppresses a mutiny at Fort
George--Returns to Europe, and recommends the formation of a
Veteran Battalion for Upper Canada--Re-embarks for Canada, and
succeeds Colonel Bowes in command of the troops there--Letters
to Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, Right Hon. W. Windham, the
Adjutant-General, Mr. President Dunn, and to Lord
Castlereagh--Arrival of Sir James Craig


CHAPTER III.

Is made a Brigadier--Letters to his family--Proceeds to Upper
Canada--Letters from Colonels Baynes and
Thornton--Lieut.-Colonel Murray--Baroness de Rottenburg